Joseph Henry Quotes

• The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.

  Joseph Henry

  Science, Discovery, Roots

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• The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction, and trained logic, either of common language or of mathematics, are important adjuncts.

  Joseph Henry

  Science, Common Sense, Imagination

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• The person who thought there could be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or ignorant of religion.

  Joseph Henry

  Real, Science, Thinking

  "A Memorial of Joseph Henry".

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• All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament.

  Joseph Henry

  Chance, Opinion, Results

  "John Inglesant". Book by Joseph Henry, 1881.

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• The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and period. Though he may catch a glimpse of the coming light as it gilds the mountain top long before it reaches the eyes of his contemporaries, and he may hazard a prediction as to the future, he acts with the present.

  Joseph Henry

  Life, Future, Eye

  Joseph Henry (1886). “Scientific Writings”

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• Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.

  Joseph Henry

  Infinite, Pity, Pathos

  "John Inglesant". Book by Joseph Henry Shorthouse, 1881.

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• The Logos was divine, not the divine Being himself.

  Joseph Henry

  Logos, Divine

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• Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them.

  Joseph Henry

  Science, Technology, Apples

  Joseph Henry (1972). “The Princeton years: January 1841 - December 1843”

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